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Riddles in literature<p><strong>The Bible</strong> Plenty of riddles here, none more famous (from Tate &amp; Lyle's golden syrup tin) than Samson's in Judges 14: 14. &quot;Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness.&quot; (Answer: bees making a honeycomb in the carcass of a lion he had killed.)</p><p><strong><em>Chronicles</em>, by Apollodorus </strong>The Thebans are plagued by the monstrous Sphinx, which sits on Mount Phikion and asks them a riddle: &quot;What has one voice, and is four-footed, two-footed and three-footed?&quot; Oedipus turns up and provides the solution: man. The Sphinx kills herself.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/29/ten-best-riddles-literature-mullan">Continue reading...</a>BooksCultureWilliam ShakespeareJane AustenLewis CarrollJames JoyceJRR TolkienDan BrownFri, 29 Jul 2011 22:55:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/29/ten-best-riddles-literature-mullanShaun Egan/Getty ImagesRiddle of the sands . . . the Sphinx at Luxor. Photograph: Shaun Egan/Getty ImagesShaun Egan/Getty ImagesRiddle of the sands . . . the Sphinx at Luxor. Photograph: Shaun Egan/Getty ImagesJohn Mullan2011-07-29T22:55:02Z